'Mindboggling' how we've become numb to Trump's 'racist dog whistles': CNN legal analyst
Raw StoryFormer President Donald Trump seemed to take a shot at Judge Juan Merchan's ethnicity this week when he said of the Colombian-born judge, "Take a look at where he comes from." The remark was reminiscent of Trump's openly racist attack on Judge Gonzalo Curiel in 2016 in which Trump suggested Curiel could not fairly oversee the Trump University civil lawsuit because of his "Mexican" heritage. In analyzing Trump's remarks on CNN, host Brianna Keilar expressed surprise that Trump hadn't really gone after Merchan's ethnicity before, although Trump ally Rudy Giuliani did throw out an apparent racist dog whistle against Merchan last month when he argued that he is "not a judge in the tradition of Anglo-American jurists." Legal analyst Elliot Williams, meanwhile, said it was astonishing how much Trump had lowered Americans' collective expectations about how political candidates should behave when observers can legitimately express surprise that Trump hasn't been even more racist in his attacks on Judge Merchan.
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